Model Hospital is live and BAOMS wants members to log in and probe the data
NCIP is ready to roll out
30 March 2022
The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) is calling on members to interrogate the new clinical OMFS performance data from the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) team, which is now live on the Model Health System.
Maire Morton, a past BAOMS President, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and GIRFT clinical lead for OMFS, explains: “Sign up and log on so you can see your trust’s Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and your department’s data. Take this opportunity to assess your hospital and the OMFS team’s performance, and benchmark against peers.”
She said that once logged in, users can interrogate data for more than 50 clinical areas for emergency readmissions, day case rates, outpatient rates and average length of stay. For example, it is possible to measure outpatient procedure rates for wisdom tooth surgery or the number of emergency readmissions in 30 days following major head and neck cancer surgery.
“This is our specialty’s opportunity to examine the system to check that the data is representative of our activity. If the data seems incorrect, speak to your coding team and check the coding used - and feed back to me”
All NHS staff in England can access the Model Health System. Staff in NHS trusts and commissioning organisations can view and download their own organisation’s data, compare it to other trusts, national England averages and peer groups.
Maire Morton also says that the National Clinical Information Programme (NICP) is going live shortly: “I will be visiting trusts across the country to support the implementation of the new programme. There’ll be more information about NCIP as it rolls out.”
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